Oh, agreed, I would have thought the accumulation would have been far greater, for sure. We are talking old old old money here. But who knows unless one is actual part of the immediate family (talking children - sons and daughters, not nephews, etc.)? Dunno.
I meant 800 years, not 80 years.
I admit that there could be things that we aren’t aware of, like how wealthy they were when they gave up their palaces and lands to the government or perhaps they lost nearly everything in WWII.
Lots can happen, I suppose.